The Digest. 02.05.10.

Ghost II, 2009 by Michael Johansson. (Image courtesy of Michael Johansson, via But Does It Float. Thanks, Yvonne.)

• Hello Kitty chainsaw.
• Giacometti sells for a butt-load of $$$.
• In sorta related news: Author Michael Crichton is sellin’ some art, including a Jasper Johns flag painting. (@russelltrombone.)
• Talking to the owner of the e-Bay piece that sells itself: “I have this thing, and I really want to keep it, but the reason I want to keep it is that it might leave.” (Modern Art Notes.)
• The L.A. Dept of Cultural Affairs gets to hold onto at least some of its funding.
• The Met is getting bloggy. (Modern Art Notes.)
• New Yorkers discovering “California minimalism” are just figuring out what Cali types already know, says Tyler Green. Speaking of which, Green links to a series of interviews he did with Doug Wheeler in ‘08.
• There’s a coupla of Paul McCarthy videos from 1987 on tank.tv until Feb. 29. So totally weird.
• Jeff Koons is gonna make a BMW art car. I’m voting for metallic balloon finish over the Dakis Joannou yacht pattern.
• 26 Cars in Bed-Stuy and Clinton Hill.
• Tony Kushner’s six-word memoir.
• Photo Essay: Felix Gonzalez-Torres.
• Upside down face. (@GOOD.)
• A Haitian hip-hop mix. Trés groovy. (@sfj.)
• Today’s Urban Decay Photo Essay: Restoring the Loew’s Kings Theatre in Brooklyn. (Gracias, Big Papi G.)
• Steve Powers’ Love Letters to Philly now available in book form.
• Ripo Came and Went.
• A petition to save Paul Rudolph’s John Chorley Elementary School in Middletown, NY.
• Chiloé.